‘Under the Dome’ Recap: The Finale

Oh thank goodness, it’s the last episode of “Under the Dome.” The series started out so well and was so interesting. And then it all fell apart. Every week Big Jim did something bad. Someone else was killed. We never really found out much of the back story for, well, anyone, least of all the dome.

So here we are, hoping everything – something- wraps up in one hour. Barbie has been blamed for lots of murders other people committed. Julia has dragged herself out of her sick bed to save Barbie. The butterfly above the little dome has hatched and keeps smashing into the walls of the dome. The little dome is going black and so is the big dome.

Sheriff Linda won’t let anyone touch the dome but her, but when Linda touches the dome, she gets thrown across the room.

Julia insists on seeing Barbie. She lets him out of jail and, although his hands are handcuffed, he miraculously beats everyone up and escapes.

Now Norrie, Angie, Joe and Junior put their hands on the little dome. The light! the light! Then the little dome exploded and the butterfly is mostly dead. No! It’s alive! alive! It’s flying!

It flies to Barbie (still in handcuffs) and pronounces him the monarch. Or does it? When the egg starts freaking out, Julia picks it up and all the shaking stops. She’s the real monarch.

Big Jim is preaching to a group of worried people. Didn’t get give this “faith in us” speech last week?

Junior tries to steal the egg but the others run away with it. Then Junior gets in a fight with Barbie again. And Big Jim goes to his late wife’s gallery where he sees lots of pictures of the egg.

Norrie asks the egg what it wants them to do and she sees her dead mom. Except it’s not her mom, it’s an alien–or something. The alien (or something) says the dome was sent to protect the town and they must earn the light by protecting the egg. If they fail to protect the egg, everyone dies.

Barbie is back in jail. Big Jim wants to know about the egg. Now Jim is building gallows to hang Barbie unless Julia hangs over the egg.

Big Jim tells Junior that his mom’s death was destiny. Jim tells Junior he only killed people when they really really needed to be dead. Jim wants to rule the world with Junior.

They start to hang Barbie, and Julia drops the egg in the lake while holding Barbie’s dogtags. Suddenly pink stars start shooting toward the sky. And then they start falling back toward the ground. Big Jim is yelling at Junior to let Barbie hang, Junior isn’t doing it.

And…The End. Because it’s been renewed for Season 2 and Stephen King is writing the first episode. Please let it be more satisfying then this hanging participle.

What did you think of the season? The ending? Tell us in the comments.